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| rdfs:comment | - John Coffee (1772-1833) was an American soldier, planter, and politician. He was a close ally of Andrew Jackson, serving at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and the Battle of New Orleans. He served as a legislator in the Georgia state house and in the United States House of Representatives.
- President Andrew Jackson appointed Coffee as his representative, along with Secretary of War John Eaton, to negotiate treaties with Southeast American Indian tribes to accomplish removal, a policy authorized by Congressional passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Coffee negotiated the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek of 1830 with the Choctaw by which they ceded their lands, and started negotiations with the Chickasaw, but they did not conclude a treaty until after his death.
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| abstract | - John Coffee (1772-1833) was an American soldier, planter, and politician. He was a close ally of Andrew Jackson, serving at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and the Battle of New Orleans. He served as a legislator in the Georgia state house and in the United States House of Representatives.
- President Andrew Jackson appointed Coffee as his representative, along with Secretary of War John Eaton, to negotiate treaties with Southeast American Indian tribes to accomplish removal, a policy authorized by Congressional passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Coffee negotiated the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek of 1830 with the Choctaw by which they ceded their lands, and started negotiations with the Chickasaw, but they did not conclude a treaty until after his death.
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